Careers
Career Development and Placement Office provides a full array of individualized career services and personal attention to students and alumni of its degree programs.
In addition to individual advisement on career direction and preparation, the Career Development office provides you with intensive experiential workshops including:
- A two-part, 5-hour, résumé development “boot camp” that helps you to identify and articulate your marketable skills and “value proposition” that differentiates you from competitors, and to craft a targeted, accomplishment-based marketing document.
- A hands-on job search correspondence workshop on how to write to prospective employers at every stage of your search, as well as choose and present your references.
- A Job Search Strategy Marathon Day that starts with writing your ideal job profile and outside critiques of your oral introductions, and prepares you to develop a self-marketing plan, obtain and practice advice interviews, build relationships that lead to introductions and referrals for jobs and internships, practice answering interview questions, and evaluate and negotiate job offers.
- Videotaped and critiqued practice interviews.
- A career change workshop addressing changing functions, industries, and/or sectors.
- A workshop on overcoming age discrimination in job search both by improving presentation and by targeting receptive segments of the market.
- Workshops on working a job fair and interviewing over a meal.
Individual advisement is designed to work with you to make informed, thoughtful decisions about your career direction and job/internship choice. Career Development staff will work with you to ensure you are considering all sides of a decision, and provide a sounding board for your questions, all in confidence. Such a highly personalized level of service will increase your level of confidence in the career decisions you alone will make.
This level of preparation and execution helps you to create more opportunities to choose from vs. using passive or less sophisticated job search methods, enabling you to fulfill your professional goals of career advancement and professional contribution to your field of endeavor throughout your career.
Career Development and Placement Office
72 Fifth Avenue, 4th floor
Hours: 9:00–5:30 Monday through Friday. Additional Hours for Individual Counseling (early morning and evening) for working students and alumni by appointment only when school is in session.
Contact information:
Phone: 212-229-5400; 212-229-5400 x1518
Email: mgscdp@newschool.edu
The GPIA/Milano Career Newsflash is the Career Development and Placement’s Office’s primary means of providing career information to students and alumni. To be added or removed from the electronic distribution list, or to place student organization events in the Newsflash or on the electronic bulletin board, please send an email to mgscdp@newschool.edu.
The GPIA/Milano electronic bulletin board carries a current schedule of career workshops, job fairs, and events; click on Students, Alumni, or Employers; scroll to “Upcoming events and programs.” Register here for workshops, practice interviews, on-campus recruitment events, and alumni panels. Selected career workshops are held on Saturdays and Sundays.
To schedule an individual counseling appointment, or register for workshops, practice interviews, and on-campus recruitment events, please call 212-229-5400; 212-229-5400x1518. These services are available to matriculated GPIA/Milano students and alumni.
Carol R. Anderson, Director of Career Development and Placement at 212-229-5400; 212-229-5400 x1109 or via email to andersoc@newschool.edu.
Carol R. Anderson joined The New School in 1998 as Director, Career Development and Placement, where she developed all of its current job search preparation and strategy workshops and began collaborations with other New York area graduate programs to create highly focused job fairs drawing national employers. She has extensive experience with diverse students and adults with foreign credentials, changing careers, or re-entering the workforce.
Carol holds an MBA in Finance from Rutgers and a BA in English from Wittenberg. She has completed graduate coursework in career counseling and executive coaching at Milano as well as coursework in adult career planning and development at New York University. Prior to joining The New School, she worked in outplacement for Drake Beam Morin, then the largest career management firm in the world, and for PROS, a Consortium for Worker Education program providing government-funded outplacement services to displaced professionals.
Her first career was in book publishing, including positions as Business Manager for the College Division of Random House and Director of Business and Operations for a division of Simon & Schuster; she later served as Group Controller for the Kenny/S&P Financial Information Services division of the McGraw-Hill Companies. Her nonprofit experience includes three years as Chair of the Finance Committee for Habitat for Humanity Newark (NJ) and, since 2005, teaching English as a Second Language for the Mexican Cultural Institute.
Carol contributed material to CollegeRecruiter.com’s e-book, The Last Job Search Guide You'll Ever Need, published in 2002 and is a frequent public speaker on job search topics. She is also a founder of Global Women, a social networking group of internationally experienced, globally focused women that is cross-functional, cross-sector, cross-cultural, and intergenerational.
For information regarding this webpage and career related events at GPIA, contact Stefan at careers@gpia.info